US5875232A - Personalized voice mail identification system - Google Patents
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- the invention relates generally to voice mail systems and, more particularly, to method and apparatus for providing personalized identification for messages recorded using such voice mail systems.
- a voice mail system is a record and playback system that allows a caller to record a message for a designated recipient, or subscriber, who is not available to take the call at the time the call is received in the system.
- the caller's message is typically digitized and stored in a central memory device and associated with the designated recipient's "mailbox address.” Only the designated subscriber can subsequently retrieve the messages associated with his or her mailbox address.
- the set of messages designated as being for a single subscriber is commonly referred to as the subscriber's "voice mailbox," although the messages for a single subscriber may be stored throughout the memory device, rather than being stored together in one area of the device.
- voice mail systems such as systems commercially available from Octel Communications Corporation, VMX, Inc., and IBM Corporation
- the system will identify the caller by name, by matching the extension from which the caller is calling with an audio file, such that the name of the caller recorded in the caller's own voice may be played, e.g., as a part of a message header, to the subscriber when the subscriber retrieves his or her messages from the mailbox.
- the system will only be able to determine, and perhaps indicate, that the caller is "an outside caller" and will not be able to provide to the subscriber the spoken name of the caller.
- the present invention accordingly, provides a personalized voice mail identification system enhancement that overcomes or reduces disadvantages and limitations associated with prior methods and systems.
- the system of the present invention resides on a personal computer (PC) connected to a phone line via a TAPI-compliant or other appropriate device for enabling telephone functions to be performed by the PC.
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- a callerID code when a caller calls a system subscriber, a callerID code, if present, is detected and a determination is next made whether there is an ID recording comprising the caller's name associated with the callerID code, and hence the caller, already stored in a database of the system. If there is an ID recording for the caller already stored in the database, the recording is accessed and played to the subscriber as part of a call screening function, if that function has been activated.
- the caller is asked to speak his or her name into the phone, at which point the caller is announced to the subscriber, if the call screening function has been activated, and the ID recording is stored in the database in association with the callerID code, if one was detected.
- the accessed ID recording is incorporated into an audio message header of a message left by the caller when the subscriber is unavailable.
- a header could be, for example, "Message from ID recording! sent date!, at time! where " ID recording! represents the content of the ID recording from the database, i.e., the caller's spoken name.
- ID recording! represents the content of the ID recording from the database, i.e., the caller's spoken name.
- a technical advantage achieved with the invention is that it enables calls to be screened by a subscriber using the caller's name as spoken by the caller.
- Another technical advantage achieved with the invention is that it enables call screening to be performed without the knowledge of the caller.
- Another technical advantage achieved with the invention is that it automatically provides the caller's spoken name in the message header, regardless of whether the caller is an "internal" or "external” caller.
- FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a personal computer embodying features of the present invention.
- FIG. 2 is a flowchart of the operation of the system of the present invention.
- FIG. 1 illustrates a personal computer (“PC") 10 embodying features of the present invention.
- the PC 10 comprises a central processing unit (“CPU") 12, a mass storage device 14, a display 16, a speaker 18, a microphone 19 and other I/0 devices, collectively designated by a reference numeral 20, interconnected via one or more computer buses, shown in FIG. 1 as a bus 22.
- At least one Telephony Application Programming Interface (“TAPI”) compliant device 24 is provided on the bus 22 for connecting the components of the PC 10 to a telephone line (not shown) and for providing the PC 10 with standard telephone capabilities.
- TAPI Telephony Application Programming Interface
- TAPI which was jointly developed by Microsoft Corporation of Redmond, Washington, and Intel Corporation of Santa Clara, Calif., defines an interface between Microsoft Windows applications and telephone devices for providing a standard way to build telephone capabilities into Windows software.
- the device 24 may be a voice modem or other appropriate device for performing the above-described functions.
- Instructions for implementing a personalized voice mail identification system embodying features of the present invention are stored in mass storage device 14 for execution by the CPU 12. Also stored in mass storage device 14 is a database 28 for storing ID recordings containing the spoken name of callers associated with particular callerID codes, as will be described.
- FIG. 2 is a flowchart of the operation of the personalized voice mail system 26. Operation begins in step 200 in response to an incoming call. In step 202, a determination is made whether callerID data is present. If so, execution proceeds to step 204, in which a determination is made whether there is an ID recording in the database corresponding to the detected callerID data. If not, execution proceeds to step 206, in which the caller is prompted to record an ID recording by speaking his or her name into the caller's telephone (not shown) and the recording is stored in the database in step 208.
- step 202 If in step 202 callerID data is not detected, execution proceeds to step 210, in which the caller is prompted to record an ID recording, again, by speaking his or her name into the caller's telephone. If in step 204 it is determined that there is an ID recording in the database corresponding to the detected callerID data, execution proceeds to step 212. Similarly, upon completion of step 208 or 210, execution proceeds directly to step 212.
- step 212 a determination is made whether the call screening function has been activated, it being understood that such activation could occur in a variety of ways, such as setting a flag or the like. If the call screening function has been enabled, execution proceeds to step 214, in which the caller's ID recording accessed in step 204 or recorded in step 206 or 210 is played to the subscriber, at which point execution proceeds to step 216. If in step 212 it is determined that the call screening function is not activated, execution proceeds directly to step 216. In step 216, a determination is made whether the subscriber has answered the call. If not, execution proceeds to step 224, in which the caller's message is recorded and stored in the appropriate mailbox. Execution of the personalized voice mail system terminates in step 226. Similarly, if in step 216 the subscriber answers the call, execution proceeds directly to step 226.
- the system of the present invention provides several enhanced features to a basic voice mail system.
- it provides a means by which the name of a caller outside a PBX may be determined and incorporated into a message header such that the caller's name is automatically announced to the subscriber when he or she retrieves his or her messages.
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